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Dem Donors Trying to Stop Sanders Worry It's Too Late
By Alana Abramson
Front-Runner
By Charlotte Alter/Nashua, N.H. , Molly Ball/Concord, N.H. , Philip Elliott/Manchester, N.H. and Lissandra Villa/Manchester, N.H.
Low-Grade Panic in New Hampshire
By Molly Ball
Biden Limps into New Hampshire
By Philip Elliott/Manchester, N.H.
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What Bernie Sanders Still Has to Prove
The Dartmouth Green is white with snow and decorated with a giant sea-monster snowman when Bernie Sanders arrives to greet a rowdy group of supporters at the Hanover Inn across the street. The fans create...
By Lissandra Villa/Hanover, N.H.
February 10, 2020
How Elizabeth Warren Plans to Turn Around Her Campaign
Three sources close to Warren's campaign say that her path forward is a version of slow-and-steady wins the race.
By Charlotte Alter/Concord, N.H.
February 10, 2020
Young Girls Can’t Vote. Here’s Why Elizabeth Warren Makes Time for Them Anyway
Childcare can be an obstacle for Iowa caucus-goers who have kids, but 14-year-old Evelyn Bergus has a plan for that. The Iowa City eighth-grader and her friend will provide free caucus night babysitting at Elizabeth...
By Charlotte Alter/Des Moines
February 3, 2020
How Being Gay Shaped Buttigieg's Campaign
"My own search for belonging of course partly has to do with being different because I’m gay," Buttigieg tells TIME
By Charlotte Alter/Des Moines
February 3, 2020
Elizabeth Warren's Iowa Comeback Pitch
Iowa could be make-or-break for Warren, who needs a comeback to re-establish herself as a top candidate. She’s campaigning like she knows it
By Molly Ball/Iowa City
February 2, 2020
Joe Does It His Way
Joe Biden’s White House bid began with false starts, pledges to do better in respecting women’s personal spaces and a concerted effort to contain his gaffes. He never fully got it together — and it...
By Philip Elliott/Waterloo, Iowa
February 2, 2020
Inside Bernie Sanders’ Iowa Ground Game
"In order to beat Donald Trump we have to expand the electorate, and we’ve been willing to take that risk.”
By Lissandra Villa/Waukee, Iowa
February 1, 2020
'They Have to Defeat Cynicism.' Jon Favreau on What Democrats Can Learn From Swing Voters
Jon Favreau is on a mission to figure out how the Democratic Party can defeat President Donald Trump. So for the second season of his Crooked Media podcast, The Wilderness, Barack Obama's former top speechwriter...
By Charlotte Alter/Des Moines
January 31, 2020
Inside Bernie Sanders' Plan to Win By Reaching Latino Voters
In Iowa, this strategy has meant a blizzard of bilingual mailers, a variety of Spanish-language ad buys, and integrating Latino organizers into the staff’s DNA.
By Lissandra Villa/Des Moines
January 31, 2020
How Bernie Sanders Is Betting on Outrage
More than any other Democratic candidate, Sanders has channeled the outrage that a lot of voters are feeling.
By Lissandra Villa/Iowa City
January 19, 2020
Four Days. One Candidate. Welcome Aboard the Buttigieg Bus
Before he got on the big yellow-and-blue bus that bore his name, Pete Buttigieg ironed his shirt in his hotel room. His tour across Iowa this week comes at the beginning of the school year,...
By Charlotte Alter/Waterloo, Ia.
September 24, 2019
Inside Elizabeth Warren's Selfie Strategy
Candidates snapping selfies with voters is not new. But Warren has elevated an old shtick into the centerpiece of her digital strategy.
By Charlotte Alter/Iowa City
September 22, 2019
Elizabeth Warren's Feminist Rallying Cry for 2020
If winning the Democratic nomination requires wooing the party's progressive wing and harnessing the power of activist women, then Senator Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that. At a rally in New York City's Washington...
By Charlotte Alter
September 16, 2019
7 Takeaways From the September Democratic Debate
For the first time in the 2020 Democratic primary, the top 10 candidates took the stage together Thursday night in Houston
By TIME Staff
September 13, 2019
Yang's Plan to Give $120,000 to Voters May Be Illegal
Democrat Andrew Yang plans to announce at the debate in Houston that his campaign will give 10 additional families $1,000 per month for a year
By Lissandra Villa
September 12, 2019
All on One Stage
The race remains wide open
By Philip Elliott
September 11, 2019
The One Where All the Candidates Are Friends
Maybe it's that campaigns sense the Democratic base is wary of bickering after the acrimonious 2016 primary. Maybe they're trying to compete for future endorsements or jobs. But staffers insist that after years of serving together, many of the presidential contenders just genuinely like each other
By Charlotte Alter
September 11, 2019
Joe Biden's Campaign Downplays Expectations for Iowa and New Hampshire
Aides' comments suggest that the former Vice President's team is trying to prepare supporters for a long, arduous nominating fight.
By Philip Elliott
September 3, 2019
How White Male Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Struggling with Questions of Privilege
The white men running for the Democratic nomination are expected to justify how they can represent a changing country and lead a party increasingly reliant on voters of color
By Lissandra Villa
August 26, 2019
Beto Finds His Voice in Helping El Paso Grieve
In some ways, it can seem as though the tragedy in El Paso has helped O'Rourke find his voice for the first time in what has been a difficult campaign.
By Lissandra Villa/El Paso, Tex.
August 11, 2019
What It Was Like Watching the Debates in Flint
Between Harris, Biden, and Booker, no clear favorite emerged. Instead, these Flint voters seemed drawn to candidates like businessman Andrew Yang and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
By Charlotte Alter/Flint, Mich.
August 1, 2019
Who Shined, Who Stumbled
Ten Democratic presidential candidates gathered in Detroit Wednesday for a rowdy debate that underscored the party's deep divisions. Here are 10 of the top takeaways: 1. This Was the Most Diverse Presidential Debate in American...
By TIME Staff
August 1, 2019
Joe Biden Is Ready for a Debate Rematch
Biden has personally signed off on a more aggressive posture and has has been studying dossiers about Harris’ record as a prosecutor and California Attorney General, advisers say
By Charlotte Alter / Detroit , Lissandra Villa/Detroit and Philip Elliott
July 31, 2019
10 Debate Takeaways
Ten Democratic presidential candidates took the stage in Detroit on Tuesday night for a debate that revealed the party's fault lines on issues ranging from healthcare to immigration to foreign policy.
By TIME Staff
July 31, 2019
2020 Democratic Debate: All About Trump's Racist Tweets
Trump's attacks leave the candidates with a difficult choice: should they their time to make a moral case against Trump, or a case for themselves?
By Lissandra Villa/Detroit and Charlotte Alter/Detroit
July 29, 2019
First Debate Showed How Far Democrats Moved Left
Some of the positions put forth in Miami may stymie moderates’ willingness to vote President Donald Trump from power.
By Vera Bergengruen and Philip Elliott / Miami
June 27, 2019
Why the First Democratic Debates Will Force 2020 Candidates to Get Serious About Immigration Policy
How Democrats handle immigration in Miami will be the first campaign test of how they position themselves on Trump's signature issue.
By Vera Bergengruen/Miami
June 25, 2019
2020 Democrats' Response to Trump Rape Allegation
"Candidates jump in once it is elevated," one staffer to a top-tier Democratic presidential candidate says.
By Charlotte Alter
June 24, 2019
Cory Booker Was a Rising Star. Inside His Plan to Become the Next Big Thing, Again
It’s more than an hour before the largest gathering of 2020 candidates in Iowa to date, and Cory Booker is getting mobbed on the streets of Cedar Rapids. Reaching over a low wall of signs...
By Lissandra Villa/Cedar Rapids, Iowa
June 24, 2019
Inside Andrew Yang's Outsider Campaign
There’s nothing like an Andrew Yang campaign event. Nowhere else will fans show up wearing hats with MATH written across the top (“Make America Think Harder”). If the mood is right, chants of “PowerPoint” break...
By Lissandra Villa/Portsmouth, N.H.
May 28, 2019
How Andrew Yang's Online Following Has Turned Into a Real-Life Coalition
Long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang is winning support with an unorthodox campaign
By Lissandra Villa/Claremont, N.H.
May 12, 2019
Pete Buttigieg Enters Presidential Race With a Message of Generational Change
The South Bend mayor framed the 2020 election as a choice between America's future and its past.
By Charlotte Alter/South Bend, Ind.
April 14, 2019
Why Sherrod Brown Decided Not to Run For President
Brown concluded his path to the nomination was too narrow to be viable.
By Philip Elliott
March 7, 2019
Michigan Is Now Poised to Elect Democratic Women
In a year when an unprecedented number of women are running for office all over the country, the state that helped make Trump president is also the state with the most notable surge in enthusiasm for female candidates.
By Charlotte Alter/Plymouth, Mich.
November 6, 2018
Elissa Slotkin Wants the Democrats to Be the Party of Patriotism
"If there was ever a moment for a strategic shift, it's now."
By Charlotte Alter/Holly, Mich.
November 5, 2018
The Beto Effect: How O'Rourke's Campaign For Senate Could Help Other Texas Democrats
Even if his campaign comes up short, O’Rourke's coattails could help carry Democrats in the eight Texas House districts in play
By Philip Elliott / Dallas
October 31, 2018
Democrats Embraced #MeToo. But This Candidate Isn’t Running on It
Unlike other Democratic female candidates, Cindy Axne is ignoring hot-button debates about gender and sexual violence and focusing on local issues
By Charlotte Alter/Des Moines
October 30, 2018
Donald Trump Could Lift Democrats to Victory in Kansas
If Democrats win the House in November, it will be due to places like Kansas's 3rd district
By Charlotte Alter/Overland Park, Kans.
October 29, 2018
The Democratic Divide isn't Between Left and Center. It's Between Old Faces and New
The party is caught in a tug-of-war between its old guard and its newcomers. Netroots suggested that the new faces are winning.
By Charlotte Alter/New Orleans
August 6, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez Pulls Off Unlikely Victory
The upset was a stunning blow for Crowley and a clear marker of the energy on the far left this year
By Philip Elliott
June 26, 2018
Why the Michigan Gubernatorial Primary Matters for the Midterms
The primary in one of the most anti-establishment states in the nation may be a preview of the party's path forward
By Charlotte Alter/Dearborn
May 31, 2018
Who's Winning the Democrats' Civil War?
The quality of the candidates the Democrats nominate will help determine how successful they are in November's midterm elections.
By Molly Ball/Atlanta
May 21, 2018
Democrats Have So Many Candidates They Could Go Broke. A New Group Might Have the Fix
How SwingLeft is "hacking campaigns finance" to win the House
By Charlotte Alter
February 2, 2018
The Death of Bipartisanship
"If there's a story on bipartisanship in this Congress, it's that it never existed," one senior Democratic aide tells TIME
By Nash Jenkins and Maya Rhodan
December 20, 2017
Democrats Face a Tough Fight in 2018
The map favors Republicans
By Alana Abramson
December 15, 2017
Trump Slams Clinton Campaign in Morning Tweets
President Donald Trump woke up Friday morning and continued tweeting about the alleged corruption of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. These tweets come a day after Politico published a fiery book excerpt by Donna...
By Nash Jenkins
November 3, 2017
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